From 1:00 PM
At Park Street Station, Boston
This Earth Day, we come together across movements & borders, calling for solutions as big as the crises barreling down on us: Climate Collapse, Endless War, Crushing Economic and Racial Inequality, Recurrent Pandemic, Rising Authoritarianism, and the Assault on Freedoms of Press, Privacy and Protest.
Join us on April 22, at 1 pm Eastern Time for a rally at Park Street Station in Boston to call for People, Planet, and Peace > Profit.
We Call For:
- Emergency WWII-scale Green New Deal with the right to agood union job in a just economy
- Just transition to 100% clean renewables by 2030, no fossil or nuclear energy, regenerative agriculture
- Economic bill of rights: Living wages, Medicare for All, free public higher education, affordable housing & public transit, food security, union rights, right to housing, abolish student and medical debt
- Global Green New Deal: developed nations aid developing nations with green technology & solutions
- Support civil liberties & human rights: path to citizenship, reparations, & Indigenous rights. LGBTQIA+ rights. Stop violence against women. Free Assange, Peltier, Abu-Jamal & all political prisoners
- Community control of police, end mass incarceration, deportations, & surveillance
- End militarism, imperialism, colonialism & economic warfare. Support global health justice & human rights. Endthe ongoing human rights disasters in Yemen, Afghanistan, Palestine, Ukraine, & beyond
- Global ceasefire. Redirect trillionsfrom warprofiteering to urgent action on climate change
- Join global nuclear weapons ban. End deadly economic sanctions & drone warfare
- Economic justice: tax the rich, public banks, community/worker co-ops, small business & fair trade
- Build real democracy: End Citizens United, corporate personhood, voter suppression & barriers to ballot access. Support publicly funded elections, proportional ranked choice voting & inclusive debates
- And much more: Join together in an unstoppable movement for people, planet & peace over profit!
Extinction Rebellion Boston will kick off their Freedom From Fossil Fuels tour at 3:30 PM from Copley Square. After hearing speakers and music starting at 1:00 PM at Park Street, we will march over to Copley to join the Extinction Rebellion march by 3:30 PM!
This event is sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action, Extinction Rebellion Boston, Revolutionary Blackout Network, ANSWER Coalition, the Green-Rainbow Party, the Raytheon Anti-war Campaign, Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign, H.E.R.O. Nurturing Center, Dorchester People for Peace, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Jericho Movement Boston, Boston May Day Coalition, Boston Food For Activists, Housing = Health, New Democracy Coalition, United Against War And Militarization, Boston DSA Internationalism Working Group, Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, Smedley Butler Brigade, Chapter 9 Veterans For Peace, Save the Pine Barrens and Boston Area Assange Defense.